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BOHEMIAN
Rhapsodies
The Chosen Spot
An ode to West County
BY JAMIE PAYNE
W
est County, you really have it going on.
When the sun’s light hits your apple
orchards, the towns become lightly
perfumed, genuinely sweeter; often it’s beams are
softened and obscured by the coastal clouds.
You are the only place where I have been greeted, chauffeured
and bid adieu by reused material that’s eager to please, tucked away
in unfamiliar crevices kissed by the westerlies. The communal
sensibility of your inhabitants supports growth and exploration
without ever concerning itself with onlookers’ attempt at claiming
you were once pigeonholed. I have seen members of your third to
last generation meet in a rundown gym, pin apple-shaped nametags
on each others’ chests; every so often two would cry in each others
arms as together they grew older, week by week. The rest of the
crowd offered no response beyond comfortable milling over the
worn wooden ﬂoor.
Your towns are quaint enough to occupy the space between
shrunken apples baked into a pie and its top crust. When the sun’s
light hits your apple orchards, the towns become lightly perfumed,
genuinely sweeter; often its beams are softened and obscured by
the coastal clouds.
Even the highway that connects your towns totes the name
“Bohemian” out of respect for the powerfully unconventional. It
contours the sometimes moist (sometimes dry) land scattered
with moss rocks and dangles from Sebastopol to Freestone; just a
mention will cause locals to immediately recall the taste of the best
freshly baked bread they have ever eaten.
Keep following it out to the beaches that line our charming span
of the Paciﬁc, or pierce the fog veil and wind your way to Occidental
among the wise evergreen furs.
West County, please continue doing what you have always done.
Happy 2014.
Jamie Payne is a freelance guitarist and SRJC student whose paintings
can be seen at JamesPayneful.tumblr.com.
Open Mic is a weekly feature in the ‘Bohemian.’ We welcome your
contribution. To have your topical essay of 350 words considered for
publication, write openmic@bohemian.com.
Je Ne Sais
Jacques
In your Jacques Brel
article (“Jacques
and Awe,” Dec. 25),
you mistakenly
call the ﬁfth
anniversary show
the 50th. I know, for
I was there, seated four rows behind
the man himself. He had not come to
America in many years as a protest of
our aggression in Vietnam. He made
an exception this night. Brel sat on
the aisle next to Judy Collins, a faithful
interpreter of his work. The Village
hip and the uptown swells joined at
Carnegie Hall to honor the voice of
the generation—or as Ms. Collins said,
“The world’s greatest performer.” The
audience was dotted with elites from
the theater and devotees of the show—
many of us who had seen the show
multiple times. My seven times seeing
it was a minor blip. Many had seen the
show 20 times or more. The music and
lyrics are life-altering.
MICHAEL POLLACK
Via online
New Year,
New Love
Here we are at the time of the year
when most people look back and reﬂect
on their lives, experiences, successes,
failures, relationships and beliefs.
Most are also looking ahead, planning
for the coming year—preparing and
constructing their goals, purposes
and aspirations as the old year draws
toward an end. Many people enjoy the
comforts and pleasures of reﬂecting on
past accomplishments and experiences
with loved ones, sharing meals together,
exchanging gifts with one another and
generally being thankful for having such
people in their lives. This is a time where
most individuals really embrace the
idea of family and truly slow down just
enough to realize what that entails.
Past successes don’t always guarantee
future successes. Failures don’t always
condemn us to impending doom.
Family, however, on whatever
level one chooses to acknowledge
or experience it, is the heartbeat of
everything. It is one thing that will
always just “be.”
Love makes the world turn. It is the
creative power in the universe. Embrace
it and accept it on any and every level
during this wonderful time of year, and
try to carry those thoughts, intentions
and feelings with you throughout the
duration of the coming year.
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Digital read thermometer probes have
been a lifesaver for me, because I don’t
cook enough meat (except on the grill)
to really know by “feel” or experience
when that whole turkey/beef roast/
crown roast is done (“Food-Fad Fails,”
Dec. 18). But I have to agree with
their ﬂimsiness! Usually it’s the metal
wire leading from the probe that fails,
usually from heat! Wouldn’t you think
they’d take that into account during the
design process? “Our product will be
used in 500 degree grills. I guess heat
resistance to 200 should be sufﬁcient.”
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Free Beaches
More than 37 years ago, the Sonoma
County coast was the birthplace of the
movement that led to the California
Coastal Act, which has preserved
maximum public access to our coastline
and beaches ever since. And in the
1990s, the Free the Beaches movement
stopped a threat to charge the public to
use our beaches.
Today, we need your help to ﬁght an
unfair and unwise proposal by the
state to charge day-use fees to use
beaches along the Sonoma County and
Northern California coast. Please join
me and show your support by signing
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By Tom Tomorrow
Sebastopol California
our petition to stop the state’s plan and
protect maximum public access for our
beaches.
The Sonoma County Board of
Supervisors and our state senator,
Noreen Evans, have been aggressive
opponents of these day-use fees. I’m
grateful for their tremendous work and
leadership on this important issue.
Unfortunately, this ill-considered
proposal has made it this far because
too many other leaders in Sacramento
have lost touch with their local
communities. I would be honored to
have you stand strong with me to
protect the public’s right to use our
beaches free of charge. Sign our petition
today!
MIKE MCGUIRE
Candidate, State Senate
Write to us at letters@bohemian.com.
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Paper
THE
THE NEW NORMAL Surveillance is everywhere, from private property to the NSA—so why not use it on our police force?
Turning the Lens
Studies show that watched cops are polite cops
BY RONALD BAILEY
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his summer, after a
civil suit challenged
the New York City
Police Department’s
notorious program of patting
down “suspicious” residents,
Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of
the Federal District Court in
Manhattan imposed an
experiment in which officers
in precincts with the highest
reported rates of stop-and-
frisk activity would be
required to wear video
cameras for a year.
Earlier this year, a 12-month
study by Cambridge University
researchers revealed that when the
city of Rialto, Calif., required its
cops to wear cameras, the number
of complaints ﬁled against officers
fell by 88 percent and the use
of force by officers dropped by
almost 60 percent. In addition,
research suggests that Judge
Scheindlin has made the right call;
requiring officers to wear video
cameras helps protect citizens’
Fourth Amendment rights against
unreasonable search and seizure.
For example, a 2004 study in
criminology and public policy
by criminologists Stephen
Mastrofski from George Mason
University and Jonathan Gould
from American University
evaluated direct observations
of police searches in a medium-
sized American city. They
conservatively estimated that
nearly one-third of police
searches were performed
unconstitutionally, and almost
none of those unconstitutional
searches came to the attention of
the courts.
Jay Stanley, a policy analyst
with the American Civil Liberties
Union, calls police-worn video
cameras “a win/win for both the
public and the police”—i.e., video
recordings help shield officers
from false accusations of abuse,
as well as protecting the public
against police misconduct.
Officer-worn video cameras do
have the potential to violate the
privacy of citizens. After all, the
police frequently deal with people
who are having one of the worst
days of their lives. Police often
enter people’s houses to investigate
disturbances and disputes. In such
cases, video of someone’s
metaphorical (or literal) dirty
laundry is nobody else’s business.
Consequently, Stanley argues
that strong rules regarding the
retention, use and disclosure of
videos from police-worn cameras
must be established and enforced.
For example, videos should be
retained for no more than 30 to 60
days, unless ﬂagged. Of course,
if the video contains evidence
of a crime, it should be retained
just as any other evidence would.
Flagging would also occur for
any incident involving force or
that produces a citizen complaint.
With the appropriate privacy
protections in place, very little of
police-recorded video would ever
be retained or viewed.
Officers should also be required
to notify people that they are
being recorded. Some preliminary
evidence suggests that both police
and citizens behave better when
they know that they’re being
recorded. Additionally, the police
should not have discretion to
release any video to the public. For
example, departments would be
barred from “leaking” videos like
that of a drunk Reese Witherspoon
being arrested in Atlanta for
disorderly conduct after a traffic
stop. (For what it’s worth, the
Atlanta police department denies
releasing the Witherspoon scene.)
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the approximately 1,700 homeless
in the city. In lieu of the National
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operated homeless shelter at
Samuel Jones Hall on Dec. 24 in
response to the extreme nighttime
chill in the area. The nonproďŹ t will
operate shuttles from the shelter
on Morgan Street in Santa Rosa to
the Southwest Santa Rosa site. To
donate warm clothing, food, time
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Reflection
Time
The Andy Lopez tragedy has
inspired numerous protests
in Santa Rosa, with answers
and action demanded by an
increasingly distressed public.
So far, their cries have not been
answered; the deputy who shot
Lopez, Erick Gelhaus, has even
been cleared to return to work.
Now a group of women has come
together to take their case to
the Sonoma County Board of
Supervisors. Calling themselves
Women in White, the group plans
a protest outside the supervisorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
meeting on Friday, Jan. 7, with
posters and mirrors, giving the
supervisors a literal interpretation
of supervisor Mike McGuireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
statement that this is a time
for reďŹ&#x201A;ection. The women plan
to ask exactly why the effort to
launch a civilian review board in
2000 failed, and to call for such
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privacy concerns, what possible
objections could there be to
requiring every officer to wear a
camera? Some contend that since
practically every citizen can now
record police activity using his
phone, police-worn cameras are
unnecessary. But some states have
made it illegal to record people in
public without their consent, and
the police are often adamant about
enforcing that prohibition when
the camera is turned on them.
Also, citizen recordings will
often be incomplete or misleading.
People typically start recording
only after an encounter turns
aggressive, so the context of what
is happening is lost.
Wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t police officers resist
wearing video cameras? Initially,
perhaps. But most patrol officers
are now becoming comfortable
with dashboard cameras in their
cruisers. A 2004 study for the
International Association of Chiefs
of Police found that in cases where
police misconduct was alleged,
in-car video evidence exonerated
officers 93 percent of the time.
The same report further noted
that dashboard cameras enhanced
officer safety, improved agency
accountability, reduced liability,
simpliďŹ ed incident review,
enhanced new recruit training,
improved community perceptions,
helped advance case resolution
and enhanced officer performance
and professionalism. In fact,
the Atlanta police officer in the
Witherspoon dashcam video
comes off as quite professional. He
consistently refers to Witherspoon
as â&#x20AC;&#x153;maâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;amâ&#x20AC;? and keeps a level
tone of voice despite some fairly
hilarious provocation.
Body-worn cameras will clearly
augment all of those objectives.
And it will accomplish an important
democratic task as well: turning
the tables on the functionaries of
the surveillance state. It gives
citizens better protection against
police misconduct and against
violations of their constitutional
rights. And it protects good cops
against unfair accusations.
Dining
Nicolas Grizzle
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MAIN COURSE The lamb shank over polenta at Riviera is exemplary of the restaurant’s approach—simple dishes done right.
Masterful Meal
La Riviera’s classic Italian fare does country’s culinary
history proud BY NICOLAS GRIZZLE
T
he menu of
La Riviera reads
like a beautiful
sonnet, for which
it has to thank 13th-century
Italian poet Giacomo
da Lentini: the menu’s
composition as a whole
would not be the same
without each one of its
individual lines, and each
line would be lost without
its place with the others.
There’s no deconstruction
or molecular gastronomy
going on in the kitchen,
just impeccable execution
of Italian classics. It’s a
tribute to the culinary
heritage of Italy to produce
such good food by simply
doing everything right, with
attention to small details.
Organic radicchio salad ($9) is
a wonderfully balanced starter.
A generous portion of deep
purple shreds lay like spaghetti,
punctuated with bursts of ﬂavor
from gorgonzola and fennel, and
topped with fresh, thinly sliced
pears and just the right amount of
balsamic vinaigrette. The bitterness
of the salad isn’t overwhelming, and
provides the perfect setting for the
sweet and salty accents.
The salad makes a good
introduction for the spaghetti
carbonara ($15), which is rich,
creamy and overﬂowing with
perfectly sized chunks of pancetta.
If there were such a thing as too
much pancetta . . . ah, but there isn’t,
so the thought stops there. This is
the dish spaghetti was created for,
and it’s done justice here.
The beautiful fresco in the side
dining room is a sight to behold. A
depiction of Italy as viewed from,
perhaps, a Tuscan villa, is more
thought-provoking and inspiring
than any bit of smartphone use
in the lulls between courses. An
outdoor dining space is decorated
with climbing vines and bistro
lighting, separated just enough from
the main entrance to be romantic
but not secluded. Just as the scenery
sinks in, the main course arrives.
On a recent evening, one special
was lamb shank over polenta. Like
a good pasta, the extravagance of
this dish was its perfect execution.
The lamb was rich, not gamey at all,
and perfectly tender—not falling off
the bone, but melting in the mouth.
Polenta served as a wonderful
way to soak up the delicious
gravy ladled gently over the dish.
Hopefully, the roasted rack of lamb
($27) on the daily menu comes from
the same supplier.
Dessert was the least exciting
course, but that doesn’t mean one
shouldn’t leave room for it. Classics
like lava cake, crème brûlée and
tiramisu are all priced at $7, and
remind diners why they’re such
after-dinner staples with, again,
near-ﬂawless execution. The
tiramisu was balanced, ﬂavorful
and presented beautifully, but the
bottom layer of ladyﬁngers was
just a touch oversoaked, while the
middle layer wasn’t quite soaked
entirely through.
Fans will note pasta dishes
named after Santa Rosa’s most
famous cyclist Levi Leipheimer
(spaghetti with sautéed prawns,
artichoke hearts, sun dried tomatoes,
garlic olive oil, $15); his wife, Odessa
Gunn (ravioli with porcini mushroom
and cream or fresh tomato basil, $18);
and Levi’s GranFondo (spaghetti
with grilled vegetables, garlic, olive
oil and dry ricotta, $13)—owner and
avid cyclist Giampaolo Pesce is
friends with the couple.
La Riviera Ristorante has become
my ﬁrst choice for Italian food
in Santa Rosa. Though it may be
more pricey than casual dining, the
quality of the food, atmosphere and
service make the experience well
worth the money.
La Riviera Ristorante, 75 Montgomery
Drive, Santa Rosa. 707.579.2682.
Our selective list of North Bay restaurants is subject to menu,
pricing and schedule changes. Call ﬁrst for conﬁrmation.
Restaurants in these listings appear on a rotating basis. For
expanded listings, visit www.bohemian.com.
COST: $ = Under $12; $$ = $13-$20; $$$ = $21-$26; $$$$ = Over $27
Rating indicates the low to average cost of a full dinner for one
person, exclusive of desserts, beverages and tip.
S O N OMA
CO U N TY
Charcuterie French
Mediterranean. $$. Intimate
bistro has casual European
wine-bar feel. Lunch and
dinner daily. 335 Healdsburg
Ave, Healdsburg. 707.431.7213.
Dempsey’s Alehouse
Gourmet pub fare. $-$$.
Popular brewpub and bistro,
award-winning handcrafted
beers, outdoor dining in
summer and pork chops to die
for. Lunch and dinner daily.
50 E Washington St, Petaluma.
707.765.9694.
Diavola Italian/Pizza. $$.
From the folks of Taverna Santi,
with artisan wood-fired pizzas
and elaborate antipasti served
in a rustic-chic old brick former
smokehouse. Lunch and dinner
daily. 21021 Geyserville Ave,
Geyserville. 707.814.0111.
Forchetta / Bastoni
Asian-Italian. $$. Southeast
Asian street food served
alongside rustic Italian in
unique two-in-one restaurant.
Heart-warming Italian from
Forchetta, while Bastoni’s
focuses on Vietnamese
and Thai. Lunch and dinner
daily. 6948 Sebastopol Ave,
Sebastopol. 707.829.9500.
Gypsy Cafe Diner. $$.
Breakfast all day and excellent
lunch featuring eggs Benedict,
chilaquiles and pulled-pork
sandwiches. Friday night
dinners feature signature
fried chicken, fresh local fish,
burgundy pot roast, Diestel
turkey meatloaf and organic
spinach ravioli. Breakfast and
lunch, Wed-Mon; dinner, Fri.
162 N Main St, Sebastopol.
707.861.3825.
Healdsburg Bar &
Grill American. $-$$
Gourmet burgers and potent
cocktails from the owners of
Cyrus. It ain’t fancy, but it’s
awfully good, with topnotch
ingredients and low prices.
Lunch and dinner daily.
245 Healdsburg Ave,
Healdsburg. 707.433.3333.
K&L Bistro French. $-$$$.
This comfortable restaurant
serves fine food with a friendly
Sebastopol flair. Zagat-rated,
consistently excellent and
surprisingly innovative. Lunch
and dinner, Mon-Sat; dinner,
Sun. 119 S Main St, Sebastopol.
707.823.6614.
Francis Drake Blvd, Fairfax.
415.454.0655.
Shige Sushi Japanese.
Marin Brewing Co Pub
food. $-$$. Excellent soups,
salads, pub grub and awardwinning pork-beer sausage.
Lunch and dinner daily.
1809 Larkspur Landing Circle,
Larkspur. 415.461.4677.
$-$$. Small space in
downtown Cotati has big
dreams. Lunch specials in
bento format, of course, but
try the nigiri for dinner. Lunch,
Tues-Fri; dinner, Tues-Sun.
8235 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.
707.795.9753.
MA R I N
CO U N T Y
Frantoio Italian. $$-$$$.
Perennial winner of SF Chron’s
“100 Best,” Frantoio also
produces all of its own olive oil.
Dinner daily. 152 Shoreline Hwy,
Mill Valley. 415.289.5777.
Hilltop 1892 American.
extensive array of bistro-chic
dishes like mild curry lamb,
spicy basil prawns and roast
duck with steamed lotus buns.
Hot and sour soup is stellar.
Lunch and dinner daily.
3100 Lakeville Hwy, Petaluma.
707.782.1132.
$$-$$$$. Casual dining with
panoramic Marin views and
a California-cuisine take on
such classic fare as steaks,
fresh seafood and seasonal
greens. Complete with
custom cocktails. Lunch and
dinner daily; Sunday brunch.
850 Lamont Ave, Novato.
415.893.1892.
Mombo’s Pizza Pizza.
Il Piccolo Caffe Italian. $$.
Lily Kai Chinese. $$. An
$. The crust is thin and the
toppings eclectic. Delivery.
Lunch and dinner daily.
1800 Mendocino Ave,
Santa Rosa. 707.528.FAST.
560 Hwy 116 N, Sebastopol.
707.823.7492.
Parish Cafe Cafe. $$.
Authentic po’ boy sandwiches
elicit the sound of a big brass
marching band with every bite.
Breakfast favorites include
shrimp and grits, but don’t
forget the beignets. Breakfast
and lunch, Wed-Sun. 60-A Mill
St, Healdsburg. 707.431.8474
The Red Grape Pizza.
$-$$. Delectable New Havenstyle thin-crust pizzas with
fresh ingredients and a
dazzling array of toppings.
Lunch and dinner daily.
529 First St W, Sonoma.
707.996.4103.
The Restaurant at
Sonoma Mission Inn
California cuisine. $$$. In this
world-class spa setting sample
Sonoma County-inspired
dishes or an elegant traditional
brunch. Dinner daily; brunch,
Sun. 18140 Sonoma Hwy,
Boyes Hot Springs. 707.939.2415.
Sapporo Japanese. $$. An
excellent choice when the
sushi urge hits. Lunch and
Big, ample portions
at this premier spot on
Sausalito’s spirited waterfront.
Breakfast and lunch daily.
660 Bridgeway, Ste 3,
Sausalito. 415.289.1195.
Insalata’s Mediterranean.
$$$. Simple, high-impact
dishes of exotic flavors. Lunch
and dinner daily. 120 Sir Francis
Drake Blvd, San Anselmo.
415.457.7700.
Iron Springs Pub &
Brewery Brewpub. $$.
Pub grub gets a pub-cuisine
facelift. Lunch, Wed-Sun;
dinner daily. 765 Center Blvd,
Fairfax. 415.485.1005.
Joe’s Taco Lounge &
Salsaria Mexican. $. Mostly
authentic Mexican menu with
American standbys. Lunch and
dinner daily; takeout, too.
382 Miller Ave, Mill Valley.
415.383.8164.
Left Bank French. $$-$$$.
Splendid, authentic French
cuisine. Lunch and dinner daily.
507 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur.
415.927.3331.
M&G’s Burgers &
Beverages American. $.
The ultimate in American cuisine.
Crispy fries, good burgers and
friendly locals chowing down.
Lunch and dinner daily. 2017 Sir
Mountain Home Inn
American. $$-$$$$. Great
summer sandwiches with a
view atop Mt Tamalpais.
Breakfast, Sat-Sun; lunch
and dinner, Wed-Sun.
810 Panoramic Dr, Mill Valley.
415.381.9000.
Pizzeria Picco Pizza. $-$$.
The wood-fired oven keeps
things cozy, and the organic
ingredients and produce make
it all tasty. Lunch and dinner,
Sat-Sun; dinner only,
Mon-Fri. 316 Magnolia Ave,
Larkspur. 415.945.8900.
dinner, Mon-Sat; dinner
only, Sun; closed Tues.
3001 Bridgeway Ave, Sausalito.
415.332.5818.
The William Tell
House American & Italian.
$$. Marin County’s oldest
saloon. Casual and jovial
atmosphere. Steaks, pasta,
chicken and fish all served
with soup or salad. Lunch and
dinner daily. 26955 Hwy 1,
Tomales. 707.878.2403
Yet Wah Chinese. $$.
Can’t go wrong here. Special
Dungeness crab dishes for
dinner; dim sum for lunch.
Lunch and dinner daily.
1238 Fourth St, San Rafael.
415.460.9883.
N A PA
CO U N T Y
Poggio Italian. $$-$$$.
Carpe Diem Wine Bar
Truly transportive food, gives
authentic flavor of the Old
World. The cheaper way to
travel Europe. Breakfast,
lunch and dinner daily.
777 Bridgeway, Sausalito.
415.332.7771.
Californian. $-$$. Right in
the heart of downtown Napa,
Carpe Diem’s contemporary
and innovative menu
includes a variety of seasonal
flatbreads, an ostrich burger,
the famed short-rib sliders
and much more. Over 45 wines
by the glass, six draft beers
and an impressive reserve
wine list round out this
warm, inviting space. Dinner
daily. 1001 Second St., Napa.
707.224.0800.
Robata Grill & Sushi
Japanese. $$. Mmm. With thick
slices of fresh sashimi, Robata
knows how to do it. The rolls
are big winners. Lunch, MonFri; dinner daily. 591 Redwood
Hwy, Mill Valley. 415.381.8400.
Salito’s Crab House
Seafood . $$$. Waterfront
setting with extensive marine
menu plus steak and other
American staples. Lunch and
dinner daily. 1200 Bridgeway
Ave, Sausalito. 415.331.3226.
Sushi Ran Japanese.
$$$$. This beautiful restaurant
attracts locals and tourists
with its fresh catches. A wide
selection of nigiri, depending
on what’s fresh. Lunch,
Mon-Fri; dinner, Fri-Sun.
107 Caledonia St, Sausalito.
415.332.3620.
Sushiholic Japanese. $$$$. A nice addition to the local
lineup, with a lengthy and wellcrafted repertoire including
uncommon dishes like
nabeyaki udon, zaru soba,
yosenabe and sea bass teriyaki.
Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat.
Rowland Plaza, 112-C Vintage Way,
Novato. 415.898.8500.
Tommy’s Wok Chinese.
$-$$. Tasty and filling Chinese
fare without the greasy
weigh-down. Nice vegetarian
selections, too. Lunch and
Compadres Rio Grille
Western/Mexican. $-$$.
Contemporary food and
outdoor dining with a Mexican
flavor. Located on the river and
serving authentic cocktails.
Nightly specials and an abiding
love of the San Francisco
Giants. 505 Lincoln Ave,
Napa. Lunch and dinner daily.
707.253.1111.
Fazerrati’s Pizza. $-$$.
Great pie, cool brews, the
game’s always on. Great place
for post-Little League. Lunch
and dinner daily. 1517 W Imola
Ave, Napa. 707.255.1188.
French Laundry
Definitive California Cuisine.
$$$$. What else is there to
say? Chef Thomas Keller’s
institution is among the
very best restuarants in the
country. 6640 Washington St.,
Yountville. 707.944.2380.
Fumé Bistro & Bar
California cuisine. $$$.
California bistro fare that
nearly always hits the mark.
Lunch and dinner daily; brunch,
Sat-Sun. 4050 Byway E, Napa.
707.257.1999.
Gillwoods Cafe Diner.
$-$$. Classic hometown diner,
specializes in the homemade.
Breakfast and lunch daily.
1313 Main St, St Helena.
707.963.1788.
Gott’s Roadside Tray
Gourmet Diner. $-$$.
Formerly Taylor’ Automatic
Refresher. Breakfast, lunch and
dinner daily. 933 Main St, St
Helena. 707.963.3486. Also at
Oxbow Public Market, 644 First St,
Napa. 707.224,6900.
La Toque Restaurant
French-inspired. $$$$. Set in
a comfortable elegantly rustic
dining room reminiscent of
a French lodge, with a stone
fireplace centerpiece, La
Toque makes for memorable
special-occasion dining. The
elaborate wine pairing menus
are luxuriously inspired. Dinner
daily. 1314 McKinstry St, Napa.
707.257.5157.
Miguel’s MexicanCalifornian. $$. Ultracasual
setting and laid-back service
belies the delicious kitchen
magic within; chilaquiles are
legendary. Breakfast,lunch and
dinner daily. 1437 Lincoln Ave,
Calistoga. 707.942.6868.
Pizza Azzurro Italian. $.
Run by a former Tra Vigne and
Lark Creek Inn alum, the pizza
is simple and thin, and ranks as
some of the best in the North
Bay. Lunch and dinner daily.
1260 Main St (at Clinton), Napa.
707.255.5552.
Redd California cuisine. $$$$$. Rich dishes balanced by
subtle flavors and careful yet
casual presentation. Brunch
at Redd is exceptional. Lunch,
Mon-Sat; dinner daily; brunch,
Sun. 6480 Washington St,
Yountville. 707.944.2222.
Siena California-Tuscan.
$$$$. Sophisticated, terroirinformed cooking celebrates
the local and seasonal, with
electric combinations like
sorrel-wrapped ahi tuna
puttanesca. Breakfast, lunch
and dinner daily; brunch, Sun.
875 Bordeaux Way, Napa.
707.251.1900.
Zuzu Spanish tapas. $$.
Graze your way through a
selection of tasty tapas in a
lively rustic chic setting with
a popular wine bar. Bite-sized
Spanish and Latin American
specialties include sizzling
prawns, Spanish tortilla,
and Brazilian style steamed
mussels. Lunch, Mon-Fri;
dinner daily. 829 Main St, Napa.
707.224.8555.
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Dining
dinner daily. 518 Seventh St,
Santa Rosa. 707.575.0631.
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Wineries
Most reviews by James Knight. Note: Those listings marked ‘WC’ denote wineries
with caves. These wineries are usually only open to the public by appointment.
Wineries in these listings appear on a rotating basis.
SONOMA
CO U N TY
Bohème Wines Earthy,
balanced Chardonnay and
Pinot Noir from an enterprising
young winemaker who’s found
a home in this redoubt in the
redwoods. Also try the Bodega
Rancho cool-climate Syrah.
3625 Main St., Occidental.
Friday, 3pm to 6pm, Saturday–
Sunday, noon to 5pm, or
by appointment. No fee.
707.874.3218.
Cotati Corner Fine
Wines What a funky
college town like Cotati needs
in a wine shop is friendly,
unpretentious, with a small
but unique selection of under
$20 wines. And that they
have. Thursday tastings.
1818 La Plaza, Ste. 106, Cotati.
Open Tuesday–Saturda;
tastings, Thursday–Friday,
5–8pm. 707.793.9357.
Hart’s Desire Wines
Brash Zinfandel and sensuous
Pinot Noir from the label with
the come-hither eyes. Brick
walls plastered with art,
participatory painting, and a
jukebox also entertain in this
old warehouse shared with
Christi Vineyards and J. Keverson
Winery. 53 Front St. (Old Roma
Station), Healdsburg.
Thursday–Monday, 11am–
5pm. Tasting fee $5.
707.433.3097.
Moondance Cellars
Dogs, Cabs and cars are the
focus; when a supercharged
1965 Corvette is parked in
front, the vintner is in the
house. Also, Port and Sherry
from Sonoma Valley Portworks.
14301 Arnold Drive, Glen Ellen.
Daily 11am–6pm. $5 tasting
fee. 707.938.7550.
Passalacqua Winery
Family-run, boasting good
reds and Chardonnay as well
as a fun wine-aroma kit to
train your senses to identify
common wine smells. Large
deck, garden and vineyard.
3805 Lambert Bridge Road,
Healdsburg. Open daily,
10am–5pm. 707.433.5575.
Red Car Wine Co. Lay
some track to the “Gateway
to Graton” and take your
palate on a ride with Boxcar
Syrah and Trolley Pinot from
Sonoma Coast vineyards.
Next stop: Côte-Rôtie on the
way to Beaune. 8400 Graton
Road, Sebastopol. Open daily,
10am-5pm. Tasting fee $10.
707.829.8500.
Stephen & Walker The
sign says, um, “cult wines,”
but take another look: Local
winemakers who have crawled
up from the very trenches
of the business are offering
Howell Mountain Cab, a Pinot
Noir triptych, Dry Creek Valley
Zinfandel, and Muscat Canelli
here. 243 Healdsburg Ave.,
Healdsburg. Daily, 11am–7pm.
Tasting fee, $10. 707.431.8749.
Tin Barn Vineyards
Yes, it is located in a tin barn,
of sorts–in the midst of a
remote industrial park, home
to “Eighth Street wineries.”
From allspice to Jolly Rancher,
coriander, fresh raspberry,
jelly Danish and horsetail to a
simply enjoyable claret style
quaff, it’s all flavor and no frills
in this friendly warehouse
winery. 21692 Eighth St. E.,
Ste. 340, Sonoma. Saturday–
Sunday, 11am–4pm. Tasting
fee, $6. 707.938.5430.
WALT Wines Chardonnay
and Pinot specialists Roessler
sold their brand to Kathyrn and
Craig Hall. The bar is compact,
the atmosphere casual, the
young fellows running the joint
good-humored. Wow, this is
Pinot Noir? Yes, toots, this is
Pinot Noir. 380 First Street
West, Sonoma. Open daily,
11am–6pm. Tasting fee, $10.
707.933.4440.
N A PA
CO U N TY
Adastra Wines To the
stars! Or, a big old horse
barn. Here is a Napa winery
that’s organic, authentic and
makes a wine that pairs great
with mammoth. Tasting is
conducted on the kitchen
table, “the way it used to
be.” 2545 Las Amigas Road,
Napa. Tour and tasting
by appointment, $25.
707.255.4818.
Cuvaison Estate Wines
(WC) Producing some 65
percent of its product as
Chardonnay, Cuvaison has
a 22,000-square-foot cave.
4550 Silverado Trail N., Napa.
By appointment. 707.942.6266.
Frog’s Leap Winery
A good story is nearly as
important as good wine;
Frog’s Leap does a neat job
on both. As you wind through
the vineyard, the frog pond
and the rustic 1884 winery,
your tour guide finds bottles
along the way, like Easter
eggs. Dry-farming, who knew,
can produce a beverage
more thirst-quenching than
water. 8815 Conn Creek Road,
Rutherford. Daily, 10am–4pm.
Tastings, $20; tours Monday–
Friday, $20. 707.963.4704.
Jericho Canyon
Vineyard Oh boy, boutique
Napa Cab from celebrity
consultant Michel Rolland and
high-rollers who used to spend
half the year in Hawaii? Well,
yeah, but they’re super nice,
work hard, and their wines are
tops. Cab and Sauv Blanc.
3322 Old Lawley Toll Road,
Calistoga. Tour and tasting by
appointment only, $30.
707.942.9665.
Round Pond Estate
Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
and Sauvignon Blanc served
tableside on the terrace with
scrumptious food pairings.
Who can’t imagine cozying up
next to the big gas-burning
hearth, watching the sun set
and savoring that Rutherford
dusk? 875 Rutherford Road,
Rutherford. Tastings by
appointment daily, 11am to
4pm. $25. 888.302.2575.
Somerston Wine Co.
Ambitious ranch and winery
includes utility-vehicle “buggy”
rides by appointment. Lonely
swans, sheep, and wine, too.
6488 Washington St.,
Yountville. Daily, 11am–7pm.
Tastings $25–$45. Ranch tours
by appointment. 707.944.8200.
Sanglier Cellars
Syrah-loving Texas transplants find
hog heaven in Healdsburg
BY JAMES KNIGHT
T
here are lots of folks
who move to the
wine country for
the lifestyle—at least, the
lifestyle that those who
can afford to purchase
vineyard estates and collect
expensive wines enjoy. And
there are those locals whose
family business it is to farm
those vineyard estates and
grow the grapes for said
dear wines. And then there’s
Glenn Alexander, who wasted no time in becoming
both kinds of folks at the same time.
Alexander joined Sonoma County’s seeming diaspora of wineloving Texans in 2001 after a running a successful manufacturing
business that involved whirlpool baths, says his daughter Chelsea
Hawley with a hint of Texas twang. She caught up with the family
in 2007.
After purchasing a tractor for his eight-acre vineyard, Alexander
found himself tooting around his neighbors’ vineyards on request.
He then obtained a viticulture certificate from Santa Rosa Junior
College and founded Bacchus Vineyard Management, which farms
vineyards for such hot-ticket brands as Kosta Browne, Paul Hobbs
and Pahlmeyer.
Key here is that Alexander uses only grapes that he farms for
clients. There’s Pinot and Chard, but the core wines are sourced
from Kick Ranch, the sought-after Rhône varietal sensation located
in unlikely Rincon Valley.
Viognier, Roussanne and Marsanne make up the lovely
2011 Blanc de Tusque ($22). It’s got an oily quality to the palate
(“unctuous,” for us wine snobs) with honeyed floral and apricot
aromas and a dry, saline finish. Mostly Syrah, the 2010 Rouge du
Tusque ($26) jots a note with purple marker on the nose—it says,
“exotic, figgy, licorice, plush.”
The signature 2009 Boar’s Camp ($45) is a blend of Syrah,
Grenache, Cinsault poised between wet stone, blood and blueberry
syrup, while aromas like savory herbs, crushed blackberries and
raspberries add complexity to the palate-friendly 2009 Kemp
Vineyard Syrah ($40). Not too showy, serious but immediately
enjoyable, the Sanglier style is a nice addition to the wine country.
Lifestyle not included.
Sanglier Cellars, 132 Plaza St., Healdsburg. Daily, 11am–6pm;
Saturday, 11am–7pm. Winter, closed Wednesdays. Tasting fee, $10.
707.433.6104.
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So Long,
2013!
A look at the year’s worst, wildest
and weirdest of the North Bay
BY LEILANI CLARK, NICOLAS GRIZZLE
AND GABE MELINE
The Spotted
Chihuahua
‘We know that there are public
elected officials here today and
that you’d better listen. You better
start coming over to our side of
town over there, and listen to what
we have to say. Because now I’ve
got what you’ve always had: it’s
called money. And listen carefully,
each of you. Until you come out
and talk to us and listen to us and
answer to what happened, I will
take my money and run a spotted
Chihuahua against you and let it
win. And I mean it.’—Greg Sarris,
Nov. 3
Citizens! I’m a spotted
Chihuahua, and I want your
vote. The above quote is from
my campaign manager Greg
Sarris. You may know him as
the chairman of the Federated
Indians of Graton Rancheria,
which opened a casino in
Rohnert Park a few days after
Sarris’ speech announcing my
candidacy. (Well, it was supposed
to be a speech honoring Andy
Lopez at a meeting of the North
Bay Organizing Project in
conjunction with a tribal donation
of $8,000 to his family, but we felt
the time was right for a political
announcement.)
My team and I haven’t yet
decided what I’m running for,
exactly, but I’m leaning toward
county supervisor. Good pay, high
reelection rates for incumbents,
ability to get into trouble without
severe repercussion—it seems like
a perfect ﬁt for an ill-tempered,
scrappy, undersized perrito like
myself. And I hear there might
be a good chance at defeating an
incumbent pretty soon.
Now, I know what you’re
thinking: Spotted Chihuahua,
you’re adorable and everything,
but where do you stand on the
issues we care about? What about
water conservation, commercial
development and paving our
roadways? I can assure you, I will
pretend to care about every little
thing your heart desires, just so
long as I get my treats. Give me a
peanut butter crunchie, and I will
sing and dance for you all day.
—Nicolas Grizzle
Efren’s Underwear
“Efren Carrillo got arrested last
night. He was drunk and in his
socks and underwear.”
It was the kind of text that
makes you drop the phone and go
“Daaaang!” And, like most people
do when a public official is caught
with their pants down (or missing
entirely), I shot back with a joke.
“Hey, it’s like the KONY 2012 guy,
without the masturbation!”
But here are the facts as we know
them: Around 3am on July 13, a
woman placed two 911 calls after a
man rustled the blinds at her
bedroom window, and soon after,
Carrillo knocked on her front
door and ran away. The 32-year-
old Sonoma County supervisor
was found in only his socks and
underwear, and the screen to the
woman’s window was discovered
to have been torn. Police believed
Carrillo intended to commit
sexual assault, and arrested him
on suspicion of burglary, prowling
and possible sexual assault in
West Santa Rosa.
The day after the arrest, I tossed
around a few Champagne-fueled
speculations with a friend. I was
convinced Carrillo had
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suffered some sort of mental
breakdown, and initially, I
empathized with the guy. I spent
my ’20s and early ’30s sucking
down whiskey drinks, a tendency
that led me into “adventures” that
might never have passed ethical
muster in the light of day. Of
course, I wasn’t on the board of
supervisors.
My friend, on the other hand,
thought this was your run-of-themill booty call gone awry. But
as facts were revealed, it turned
out that this was far from the
truth. The young woman barely
knew Carrillo, aside from the
superﬁcial interaction you might
have with a neighbor who lives
across the fence, or in this case,
across the driveway. Far from a
case of buyer’s remorse, this was
something way more serious. For
most women, an unknown man
entering a bedroom window in the
early morning hours is the stuff of
nightmares.
As Carrillo’s charges were
reduced to peeking, the calls for
his ouster were repeated, but
much of the press focused on
whether the whole incident would
have long-term repercussions for
Carrillo’s rising political star. A
more crucial question might be:
How can the women of Sonoma
County feel safe in a community
that allows elected leaders to
violate the safety of one of his
own constituents, whatever
Carrillo thought the potential
outcome might be of his two-beerin-hand, nearly naked, pre-dawn
visit? As Rosanne Darling, the
victim’s lawyer told the Bohemian
in December, “Nobody’s talking
about what this means for the
women of this county. What are
we willing to accept in 2013, in a
place as progressive as Sonoma
County?”
That’s the question we should
be asking ourselves in 2014.
—Leilani Clark
Sinking Rock
Hey, remember BottleRock?
The most promising music
festival to ever hit the North Bay,
with the most insanely top-notch
lineup of bands? Of course you
do, because if you weren’t at the
festival itself, you were either
stuck listening to your co-workers
talk about it all the time, or just
plain stuck in its traffic.
Or hey! Maybe you’re one of the
many people to whom BottleRock
owes money. That’s because after
ﬁve festival days with nearly
everything running smoothly,
the star-struck promoters paid
the bands—and forgot to pay full
invoices to the stagehands, the
backstage caterer, the portable
toilet company, the trash lady,
the shuttle bus company, the
city of Napa . . . And the list goes
on. Even the father of one of the
promoters ﬁled suit against his
own son to be paid. Ouch.
As of late November, a trio of
new investors was interested
in taking over the festival and
paying off its estimated $8.5
million in debt. But between
the lawsuits, the bad press, the
inﬁghting and the obscene levels
of ﬁnancial mismanagement, who
would want to take the chance?
Meanwhile, three-day passes for
BottleRock 2014 remain for sale
on the festival’s website. Our tip:
save your $329 until a real lineup
is announced.—Gabe Meline
The Death of
a Child
Andy
Lopez was
just another
13-year-old
walking
through his
neighborhood
on Moorland
Avenue in
Santa Rosa,
on his way
to a friend’s house to return his
toy gun. When he heard someone
from behind yell to him, he began
to turn around to see who it was.
Instead, he was pumped full of
bullets, killed in plain daylight
by deputy Erick Gelhaus, who
continued to shoot after the boy
fell to the ground.
According to the autopsy, which
showed the bullets’ trajectories,
Andy Lopez was only halfway
turned around before he was
shot from behind. According to
witnesses, Gelhaus didn’t identify
himself as law enforcement. And
according to the sheriff’s own
time stamp, the whole incident—
from radioing in a suspicious
person with a gun, to radioing
back that shots had been ﬁred—
took just 10 seconds.
Andy Lopez didn’t have a
chance.
Marches, vigils and actions
have been a weekly occurrence
since, and you can’t walk a
hundred yards in southwest Santa
Rosa without seeing “Justice for
Andy” painted on a car window.
In other parts of town, though,
things aren’t so tumultuous. The
Santa Rosa Police Department
is as close as ever with the
Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office,
and is tasked with the “outside”
investigation. District Attorney
Jill Ravitch is tasked with
reviewing that investigation,
despite being cozy as can be with
Sheriff Steve Freitas—the two
spoke at each others’ campaign
kickoff events. A nearly all-white,
middle-aged grand jury will likely
dutifully stamp the results.
Lopez’s death caused us all to
“have a conversation” in 2013.
But with 27 officer-related fatal
shootings that have occurred
since 2000, and with Gelhaus
back at work and likely to be
cleared of any wrongdoing, it’s
time to stop talking and start
acting to change a system that
allows such tragedies. At the very
least, Ravitch should voluntarily
recuse herself from reviewing
the investigation of Frietas’
department—a clear political
conﬂict of interest. Better yet
would be for the formation of a
civilian review board to oversee
officer-related shootings, which
has long been recommended for
Sonoma County and is currently
being studied by a task force. If
it could stop even one innocent
13-year-old from being killed, it
would all be worth it.
—Gabe Meline
The Electeds’
Musical Chairs
A barrage of political candidacy
announcements marked the second
half of 2013 as local politicos revved
up for an election year. After State
Sen. Noreen Evans announced
that she would not seek re-election
in 2014, Sonoma County
Supervisor Mike McGuire launched
a bid for her state Legislature seat.
(A “leaked” poll of 400 registered
North Coast voters shows
McGuire with a signiﬁcant lead
over the other two candidates, for
whatever that’s worth.)
It wasn’t long before potential
candidates began vying to
take over McGuire’s position.
Those entering the fray include
James Gore, a former senior
official in the Department of
Agriculture under President
Obama. A Sonoma County
native with wine industry ties,
the 35-year-old recently moved
back to Healdsburg with his
wife and daughter, announcing
his candidacy soon afterward.
Environmentally minded Windsor
councilwoman Deborah Fudge
will make her third attempt
at supervisorial seat, as will
lively, rampant Press Democrat
commenter Keith Rhinehart,
former Healdsburg mayor Pete
Foppiano, and Healdsburg city
councilman Tom Chambers.
In Santa Rosa, former Press
Democrat columnist Chris
Coursey announced a run for
a seat on the Santa Rosa City
Council. If he wins, he’ll leave
behind a long journalism career
for public office, leaving his loyal
readers to sigh and cheer at the
same time. Shout out to Erin
Carlstrom for bringing her new
baby to city council meetings
Delicious Gamble
Rohnert Park residents rejoiced
this year when the long-awaited
casino opened on the outskirts of
town. Not because there would
ﬁnally be a form of entertainment
other than miniature golf or
theater in the city, but because the
$800 million gambling mecca has
a top-notch taqueria.
The 34,000-square-foot casino
is fun and all, but the real draw
is La Fondita. The Santa Rosa
eatery was hand-picked by tribal
chairman Greg Sarris to open
another outlet of its popular
Roseland restaurants inside
the casino. With the incredible
response to the opening of a
Chipotle restaurant in Rohnert
Park (diners sometimes waited
upwards of an hour in line), it was
obvious that RP residents were in
desperate need of a real burrito.
Yes, the casino was a source
of controversy for over a decade
before it was even built, and traffic
was terrible on opening day,
Nov. 4. But the delicious tortas
were worth the wait, as a full
parking garage and packed
gambling ﬂoors littered with
drips of crema and guacamole
will attest. It’s a mainstay, and
even if Amy’s Kitchen does open
a healthy fast-food establishment
down the street, it won’t make a
dent in La Fondita’s business. A
healthy chorizo chimichanga is
one that I don’t ever want to meet.
And if a strip mall or two
opens across the street with a
Taco Bell or a Baja Fresh, so be
it. Station Casinos bought all
the land adjacent to the casino it
bankrolled, and it can lease the
space to whomever it likes. You
know why La Fondita doesn’t
give a shit? Because their tacos
are the shit—the best little meat
bombs a tortilla has ever had
the honor of transporting to a
mouth. And the elote? That’s
no gamble, that’s a sure bet
for deliciousness, corn-teeth
be damned. Rohnert Park has
changed forever, no thanks to
the smoky, ﬂashy, loud, moneysucking sensory blitz of the
Graton Rancheria Casino, but to
the beautiful, rich, spicy carne
asada contained within.—Nicolas
Grizzle
The Internet
Lottery
Out of the thousands of things
we post online every year, we’re
never completely sure what’s
going to capture the imagination
of the public at large. But in the
case of a mid-July post about a
newscast, we at the Bohemian
captured eyeballs worldwide.
In a post titled “KTVU Reports
Asiana Pilots Named ‘Sum Ting
Wong,’ ‘Ho Lee Fuk,’” we had the
somewhat dubious honor of being
ﬁrst to break the news that KTVU
anchors had messed up really,
really bad. In just one day, we’d
amassed 250,000 views; the post
would go on to break the halfmillion mark by the end of the
week. What can we say? People
all over the world like racist news
bloopers.—Gabe Meline
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and providing inspiration to
working moms everywhere—and
a brickbat to the misogynist troll
who wrote that Carlstrom should
“stay at home with her ﬁrst child.”
This was also the year that the
31-year-old attorney, who’s served
less than a year on Santa Rosa
City Council, announced that she
would run for State Legislature . .
. oh wait, no, never mind . . . make
that the 10th District assembly
seat, currently held by Marc
Levine, who last year unseated
Michael Allen. Carlstrom hasn’t
made the official announcement
yet, but maybe this one will
stick.—Leilani Clark
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FOLK YEAH Dazzling
young quintet We the Folk
play Hopmonk in Sebastopol
on Jan. 2. See Clubs, p21.
SONOMA
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SAUSALITO
No Lye
Mortal Coil
Sunday Honk
Life in Cuba
Everyone knows that, as a Mediterranean
climate, Sonoma County is perfect for
growing grapes. But what about that other
Mediterranean fruit? We once had many
olive farms in the region, since replaced, like
the ill-fated Gravenstein apple, by the morebuck-per-pound grape. Enter the Sonoma
Valley Olive Festival, which aims to restore
the local olive to its throne. While there’s
the Blessing of the Olives on Jan. 4 at the
Sonoma Mission (11am; free), we direct your
attention to olive guru Don Landis and his
free workshop on curing olives in the home.
Landis shares his personal recipe for “no
lye” curing on Sunday, Jan. 5, at Cline Cellars.
24737 Arnold Drive, Sonoma. Free; RSVP to
Don Landis (olivedon@hotmail.com). For
more info, visit www.olivefestival.com.
It’s a fact: we’re all gonna have to go
some time. The thing is, our loved ones
have to grapple with our absence. Enter
the Death Cafe, an unconventional take
on the idea of a support group for those
wrestling with the loss of a loved one.
As noted in an April 2013 Bohemian
feature, participants in the Death Cafe
laugh a lot more than they cry, and
the whole meeting serves to break the
weirdly uncomfortable relationship
humans have with something that’s so
normal, it’s 100 percent guaranteed. Tea,
cake and stories of shufﬂing off abound
when Karen Garber hosts on Wednesday,
Jan. 8, at the Sunﬂower Center.
1435 N. McDowell Blvd., Petaluma. 7pm.
Free. 707.792.5300.
We were glad to see a familiar name in
this year’s SF Sketchfest lineup with the
announcement of a tribute to Mal Sharpe,
who with Jim Coyle revolutionized the
concept of the man-on-the-street interview
in the 1960s and added a touch of the
absurd to the already absurdist decade.
(It worked in the 1980s, too; you haven’t
lived until you’ve heard Sharpe ask Reagan
devotees at the Republican National
Convention to name their favorite ﬁsh.) Like
Woody Allen, Sharpe has been seduced by
Dixieland, and plays it, properly and suitably,
every week in Sausalito. Kick the new year
off right, get a $7 ice cream cone and see
Sharpe and band rave it up on Sunday,
Jan. 5, at the No Name Bar. 757 Bridgeway,
Sausalito. Free. 3–6pm. 415.332.1392.
Naturally, the stellar music drove
the narrative of the award-winning
documentary Buena Vista Social Club. But
just as important and eye-opening were
the many scenes of street life in and
around Havana—the cars, dancing, street
peddlers, artists and overall culture of
the country that’s grown independently
for 50 years. Filmmaker Warren Haack
became entranced by this culture, and
has released a ﬁlm capturing life in the
clubs, bars and streets of Cuba. ‘Santiago
Is Santiago’ explores this Afro-Cuban
intermingling; it screens on Tuesday,
Jan. 7, at the Bay Model Visitor Center.
2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 6pm. Free.
415.332.3871.
—Gabe Meline
Kevin Berne
WHERE IS HE? MTC’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ tops our theater critic’s 2013 list.
Top Torn Tix 2013
My favorite plays of the year
BY DAVID TEMPLETON
O
f the 70-something
plays I see each year,
I am asked every
December to select 10 that
were my favorites. That’s an
interesting concept, favorites.
My favorite pet of all time was
Waldo, a seriously ﬂawed example
of canine scrounginess, wholly
unexceptional except for one
detail: I loved him. I suspect he was
no worthier than any other dog,
and I’m sure that the experts who
judge dog shows would scoff were
I to suggest that Waldo deserved
to be thought of as the best. But we
love what we love.
Once a year, I set aside my analysis
and simply name the 10 shows that
got to me the most, made me laugh
the hardest or cry the longest or
think the juiciest thoughts. Some
of these might truly belong on a
list of the best shows of the year
(some were awesome!), but that’s
another list. These are my own
personal, most-loved shows.
1. ‘Waiting for Godot’ (Marin
Theater Company) Director Jasson
Minadakis took one of the theater’s
most minimalistic plays and
stripped it down to almost nothing
but the words, then put those words
into the mouths of four brilliant
actors. Gorgeously staged, it took
audiences on a journey of absurdist
extremes. Wonderfully done.
2. ‘The Price’ (Cinnabar Theater)
A brilliant Charles Siebert almost
stole Arthur Miller’s well-crafted
drama from his three co-stars, but
under the poetic direction of Sheri
Lee Miller, actors John Shillington,
Madeleine Ashe and Samson Hood
(in his best-ever performance)
kept stealing it back.
3. ‘The Sound of Music’ (Mountain
Play) The Bay Area’s largest stage
(atop Mt. Tamalpais) was put to
spectacular use in Rodgers and
Hammerstein’s beloved classic,
from cars and motorcycles driving
across massive pivoting sets to the
von Trapp family climbing an
actual mountain in the rousing and
lovely ﬁnale.
4. ‘The Shape of Things’ (Main
Stage West) It was a strong year
for Keith Baker, who rocked as
Caliban in Sebastopol Shakespeare
Festival’s Tempest but had already
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given one of the year’s best
performances in David Lear’s
production of Neil LaBute’s social
satire about art, love and other
forms of emotional manipulation.
5. ‘Red’ (Sixth Street Playhouse)
Charlie Siebert again, directed
by Craig Miller, paired with actor
Ryan Schabach’s in John Logan’s
astonishingly good examination of
the work and ideas of artist Mark
Rothko.
6. ‘This Is Our Youth’ (Main
Stage West) Sex. Drugs.
Foul language. Toasters. Ken
Lonergan’s affectionately ﬁerce
story of three rudderless young
people, directed Keith Baker, was
as shocking as it was entertaining.
7. ‘La Cage aux Folles’ (Cinnabar
Theater) Sheri Lee Miller (who
directed the above-mentioned
Price and The Tempest) scored yet
again with a deeply moving,
emotionally grounded spin on
Harvey Fierstein and Jerry Herman’s
hilarious musical. Actors Michael
Van Why and Stephen Walsh were
wonderfully real.
8. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (Actors
Basement) Directed by Merlyn Q.
Sell, this gender-bending
presentation of Shakespeare’s
tragic romance was cleverly staged
on two sides of a window, with
scenes performed simultaneously
to stunning, sexy and often eyeopening effect.
9. ‘Shrek: The Musical’ and
‘Pirates of Penzance’ (Summer
Repertory Theater) SRT’s strongest
season in years included two
supremely charming shows which
worked as a pair (so I’m including
them as one). Shrek: The Musical,
directed by James Newman,
transported the nasty-nice
animated ﬁlm onto the stage with
a sly social message about equality
and speaking truth to power.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of
Penzance, directed by Brian J.
Marcum, was played with giddy
enthusiasm and lighthearted glee.
10. ‘The Spanish Tragedy’
(Marin Shakespeare Company)
Thomas Kyd’s seldom-produced
play, as directed by Lesley
Currier, was a wild ride of a show,
alternately violent and funny,
poetic and crude, a memorably
rip-roaring history lesson that had
audiences buzzing from start to
ﬁnish.
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Film
A Sebastopol Community Cultural Center
and Cumulus Presents Production
Cloud Moss’ 60th birthday
Charity Beneﬁt Concert Saturday, January 25
All proceeds to beneﬁt Redwood Empire Food Bank
and Sebastopol Community Cultural Center
Featuring Dave Alvin (trio), Jimmy Lafave (band), Wavy Gravy,
Special Guest Nina Gerber, Jim (Mr. Music) & The Corbettes,
Teresa Tudury and Analy High School Vocal Ensemble (singing doo-wop)
Concert begins at 7pm (6pm doors) includes late night dance set
Pre-concert reception 4pm, Center Annex, includes food, entertainment & libations
Ticket Prices: Victrola $100 • Gramophone $78 • Vintage $60
Juke Box $45 (reception only) • Vinyl $33.33
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Tickets and Info: cumuluspresents.com, seb.org or 707-823-1511
Cumulus Presents & Sebastopol Community Cultural Center
Upcoming Concerts
The one, the only, Mister…
David Lindley
Friday, January 17, 8:00 pm
First time back since ‘09, from Mali…
Habib Koite
Friday, January 31, 8:00 pm
“First there was Hendrix, then Stevie Ray
and now Habib.” —Bonnie Raitt
Also Coming Soon
Poor Man’s Whiskey
(night of Allman Brothers Band music)
February 15th
Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott – March 1st
R. Carlos Nakai with Will Clipman – March 22nd
Celtic Fiddle Festival
(featuring Kevin Burke, Christian Lemaître, and André Brunet) – April 11th
Greg Brown – April 26th
Tickets and Information: www.seb.org or 707-823-1511
Mouse Trap
Disney’s terrible year in film
BY RICHARD VON BUSACK
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EPCOT ETHER ‘Escape from Tomorrow’ was the best Disney-related ﬁlm of 2013.
M
y favorite ﬁlms of 2013 include Captain Phillips,
Her, Gravity, 12 Years a Slave, Nebraska and
The Grandmaster. But the worst ﬁlm of 2013
was The Lone Ranger.
What a bad year for Disney. Watch them try to burnish their image
with the lie-ﬁlled Saving Mr. Banks, where they imagineered the
story of starchy Brit P. L. Travers (Emma Thompson), author of Mary
Poppins, learning to lay back and enjoy market penetration. Cut to
The Lone Ranger, a Disney franchise that no one knew how to launch.
Who was that movie for? Psychotic kids?
And then there was 2013’s Revolt of the Disney girls. Defenders of
Spring Breakers (I’m not really one) claim the transgressive qualities
of this thang were proved by defecting Disneyites Selena Gomez and
Vanessa Hudgens, going down and dirty. (And Spring Breakers came
out even before the former Hannah Montana decided to twitch her
undernourished hams at that awards show.)
But I preferred Randy Moore’s all-out attack on Sleeping Beauty’s
castle. Escape from Tomorrow, ﬁlmed guerrilla-style inside Disney
World and Disneyland without permission, even has a counter on its
website ticking off the time until the ﬁlmmakers are sued by Disney.
Moore added to the encouraging black-and-white revival of 2013:
Frances Ha, Much Ado About Nothing, Nebraska and the charcoaland-snow-tinted colors of Inside Llewyn Davis. While proving the
viability of monochrome, Moore also snatched his movie out of one of
the most heavily monitored places on earth. You’d rather steal chump
change from Smaug.
My favorite movie of the year was Blue Is the Warmest Color,
with its two mesmerizing leads, but I also loved the two unfortunate
women facing religious mania (or is it religious solace?) in the
Romanian tragedy Beyond the Hills. And the troubled friendship in
Frances Ha, and brave Beatrice sticking up for her kinswoman Hero
in Joss Whedon’s typically feminist take on Shakespeare in Much
Ado About Nothing.
It’s the reason why the Bechdel Test means so much as I get older,
and why male buddy ﬁlms mean less to me.
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Danceable Americana 8:00
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LORIN ROWAN’S
Jan 5 CARIBBEAN BLEU
Warm Grooves
4:00 / No Cover
Fri
Dance Party!
Jan 10 STOMPY JONES
The Coolest Swing
8:00
LARGEMOUTH BASS Aaron Barrett, front, continues his ska-punk juggernaut.
Taking the Bait
Reel Big Fish return to the Phoenix
BY L. KENT WOLGAMOTT
‘P
retty much from the word go, from note one, we
do our best to give the audience an action-packed
show,” says Reel Big Fish drummer Ryland Steen
in a recent phone interview. “These days, you want to leave
a show feeling like you’ve been somewhere. We do our
best to give them a fun show, that kind of experience,
and the music, universally, just makes people go crazy.”
For Steen, a native of Lincoln, Neb., playing fast-paced ska-punk
was at ﬁrst a challenge. “Growing up, I had knowledge of reggae
music, but I didn’t know anything about original ska, much less the
third wave of ska music that Reel Big Fish came out of,” he says. “It
took me a couple years before I really felt comfortable.” Reel Big Fish
play Jan. 7 at the Phoenix Theater.
The band enjoyed a surge in the late 1990s, when groups such
as No Doubt and Sublime helped push ska to the forefront of the
alternative rock scene. “Sell Out,” the single from the group’s 1996
album Turn the Radio Off, reached number 10 on Billboard’s modern
rock chart, and the video saw considerable play on MTV. But the
popularity of ska-punk proved brief, and Reel Big Fish never again
cracked the upper tier of the rock charts.
After 20 years, singer Aaron Barrett is the only remaining original
member of the band. Steen will soon mark his eighth year in the band.
“They go by in a blur,” he says. “When I ﬁrst joined the band I thought,
‘I’ll be in it for a year or two.’ Eight years later, I feel really lucky to be
in this band and to have it turn into the experience it’s become.
“Being able to be on a bus and tour the world six or seven months
a year is so great,” Steen continues. “Wherever we go, we seem to
have a great group of people to see the show, at every show. Because
we’ve toured so much, the band has built its reputation on the live
show. We try to bring it every night, and the people always do. We
feed off of that.”
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On the Town Square, Nicasio
www.ranchonicasio.com
Sonoma County’s Original Roadhouse Tavern
Great Food & Live Music
Thur Jan 2
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Fri Jan 3
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Sat Jan 4
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Plus on Fri & Sat Nights:
Rasta Dwight's BBQ!
5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove
707.795.5118
Reel Big Fish play Tuesday, Jan. 7, at the Phoenix Theater.
201 E. Washington St., Petaluma. 7:30pm. $20–$23. 707.762.3565.
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Concerts Clubs &
SONOMA COUNTY
Venues
Reel Big Fish
Skankers wrote the catchy hit,
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sell Out.â&#x20AC;? Suburban Legends,
the Maxies and Mighty Mongo
open. Jan 7, 7:30pm. $20$23. Phoenix Theater, 201
Washington St, Petaluma.
707.762.3565.
NAPA COUNTY
Grand Night for
Singers
Vocalists from around
Northern California and beyond
take turns onstage. Piano
accompaniment by host Richard
Evans. First Saturday of every
month, 7pm. $15. Jarvis
Conservatory, 1711 Main St,
Napa. 707.255.5445.
SONOMA COUNTY
Aqus Cafe
First Wednesday of every
month, Chamber Music. First
Thursday of every month, Celtic
Night. Second Wednesday of
every month, Jazz Jam.
189 H St, Petaluma.
707.778.6060.
Arlene Francis Center
Jan 5, the Vespertine Orchestra,
Miles Wick, Peck the Town Crier,
Alex Rather-Taylor. Wed, Open
Mic. First Thursday of every
month, Jazz & Coffee.
99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa.
707.528.3009.
Chrome Lotus
Fri, Sat, Live DJs.
501 Mendocino Ave, Santa
Rosa. 707.843.5643.
Coffee Catz
Mon, 6pm, open mic. Sat,
2pm, bluegrass jam. First
Wednesday of every month,
Inner Piano Listenings with
Jerry Green. 6761 Sebastopol
Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.6600.
Flamingo Lounge
Tues, Swing Dancing with
Lessons. Sun, 7pm, salsa with
lessons. 2777 Fourth St, Santa
Rosa. 707.545.8530.
French Garden
Jan 3, Organix. Jan 4, Bearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Belly. 8050 Bodega Ave,
Sebastopol. 707.824.2030.
Friar Tuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Fri, DJ Mike. Wed, Sat, karaoke.
8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.
707.792.9847.
Hopmonk Sebastopol
Jan 2, We the Folk. Jan 3, Petty
Theft. Jan 8, Ini. Mon, Monday
Night Edutainment with
Jacques & Guac. Tues, 7:30pm,
open mic night. 230 Petaluma
Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.7300.
Hopmonk Sonoma
Jan 3, Rick Swanger. Jan 4,
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Timothy Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;neil Band. Wed,
Open Mic. 691 Broadway,
Sonoma. 707.935.9100.
Inn at the Tides
Sat, Maple Profant. Bay View
Restaurant. 800 Hwy 1, Bodega
Bay. 800.541.7788.
Olive & Vine Cafe
Sun, Sunday Supper Club with
live music. 14301 Arnold St,
Glen Ellen. 707.996.9150.
Phoenix Theater
Jan 1, Moonlight Rodeo. Jan 2,
Nick Lopez. Jan 3, Brothers of
Siren. Jan 4, Pat Jordan Band.
Jan 5, Slowpoke. Jan 8, Junk
Parlor. 1280 N McDowell Blvd,
Petaluma. 707.778.8776.
Jan 4, the Bruthas. Jan 5,
Poetry with Glenn Ingersoll and
Alan Bern. Jan 7, Reel Big Fish,
Suburban Legends, the Maxies,
Mighty Mongo. Mon, 7pm,
young peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s AA. Tues, 7pm,
Acoustic Americana jam. Wed,
6pm, Jazz jam. Sun, 5pm, rock
and blues jam. 201 Washington St,
Petaluma. 707.762.3565.
Main Street Station
Redwood Cafe
Lagunitas Tap Room
Jan 4, Four Shillings Short. Sun,
Kit Mariahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open Mic Night.
16280 Main St, Guerneville.
707.869.0501.
Mavericks
Jan 3, Cherry Street Gang.
397 Aviation Blvd, Santa Rosa.
707.765.2515.
Mc Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bullpen
Thurs, 9pm, karaoke with
Country Dan. Fri, DJ Alexander.
16246 First St, Guerneville.
707.869.3377.
First Tuesday of every month,
Rock Overtime. Thurs, Open
Mic. First Friday of every
month, Dginn. First Sunday of
every month, Organix Guitar.
8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.
707.795.7868.
Riverside Bistro
Fri, Jazz on the River with the
Peter Welker Sextet.
54 E Washington St, Petaluma.
707.773.3200.
Thurs, Casa Rasta. First Friday
of every month, Neon with DJ
Paul Timbermann & guests.
Sun, Church on Sundays.
528 Seventh St, Santa Rosa,
No phone.
Sprengerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tap Room
Jan 4, the Hots. 446 B St, Santa
Rosa. 707.544.8277.
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Tradewinds
All Female MĂśtley CrĂźe Tribute Band
Mon, Donny Maderosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pro Jam.
Tues, Jeremyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open Mic. Thurs,
DJ Dave. 8210 Old Redwood
Hwy, Cotati. 707.795.7878.
MARIN COUNTY
Fri and Sat, Top 40 DJs hosted
by DJ Stevie B. 146 Kentucky St,
Petaluma. 707.782.0592.
Jan 5, San Francisco Institute
of Music. Mon, Open Mic with
Derek Smith. 142 Throckmorton
Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.
Murphyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Irish Pub
Jan 2, John Roy Zat. Jan 4,
Manzanita Moon. Sun, Evening
Jazz with Gary Johnson.
131 E First St, Cloverdale.
707.894.9610.
Jan 4, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Absence of Mercyâ&#x20AC;?
with John Burley. 51 Tamal
Vista Blvd, Corte Madera.
415.927.0960.
Society: Culture House
Wed, 8:20pm,
salsa dancing with
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Mon, open mic with Phil the
Security Guard. First Sunday of
every month, Robert Herrera,
Brianna Lee, Josh Barrett.
116 Fifth St, Santa Rosa.
707.544.8623.
Wed, Singles and Pairs Square
Dance Club. Thurs, Sun, Circles
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;n Squares Dance Club.
1400 W College Ave, Santa
Rosa. 707.529.5450.
Jan 2, David Thom Band.
Jan 3, Sonoma Mountain.
Jan 4, Andrew Freeman Band.
Wed, trivia night.
464 First St E, Sonoma.
707.935.0660.
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Thurs, Dj Tazzy Taz.
8201 Old Redwood Hwy,
Cotati. 707.664.0169.
142 Throckmorton
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Blues Night. 919 Fourth St, San
Rafael. 415.813.5600.
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848 B St, San Rafael.
415.454.5551.
19 Broadway Club
Jan 1, Miles Schon Band.
Jan 2, Down North. Jan 3, DJ
Dans One. Jan 4, AZ/DZ, the
Gravel Spreaders. Jan 7, Wendy
Dewitt. Mon, 9pm, open mic.
First Sunday of every month,
19 Broadway Good Time
Band. 19 Broadway, Fairfax.
415.459.1091.
Tues, 8:30pm, open mic with
Damir. Fri, 9pm, Michael
Aragon Quartet. Sun, 3pm,
Mal Sharpe’s Dixieland.
First Monday of every
month, 8:30pm, Kimrea.
757 Bridgeway, Sausalito.
415.332.1392.
Sun Jan 12
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Jan 5, Charlie Docherty. Jan
7, Swing Fever. Jan 8, Lorin
Rowan. 4 Bayview St, San
Rafael. 415.457.3993.
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Spanish. Sun, Terrapin Family
Band. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San
Rafael.
Sleeping Lady
Wed, Jumpstart. Sun, DJ
Night. 902 Main St, Napa.
707.258.2337.
Jan 5, Mario Guarneri. Mon,
8pm, open mic with Simon
Costa. Sat, Uke Jam. Sun, 2pm,
Irish music. Second Wednesday
of every month, Finger-Style
Guitar Showcase. 23 Broadway,
Fairfax. 415.485.1182.
Smiley’s
Mon, reggae. Wed, Larry’s
karaoke. Sun, open mic.
41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas.
415.868.1311.
Sweetwater Music Hall
Jan 2, Imperial Messenger
Service. Jan 4, Crüella, Reckless
in Vegas, the Hormones.
Mon, Open Mic. Every other
Wednesday, Wednesday Night
Live. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill
Valley. 415.388.3850.
Terrapin Crossroads
Wed, Terrapin Family Band Bar
Show. Fri, 4:20 Happy Hour
with live music. Fri, Brian Lesh
& Ross James. Fri, Walking
NAPA COUNTY
Downtown Joe’s
Brewery & Restaurant
Hydro Grill
First Saturday of every
month, AlwaysElvis. Sun, 7pm,
Swing Seven. Fri, Sat, blues.
1403 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga.
707.942.9777.
Molinari Caffe
Thurs, Open Mic. 815 Main St,
Napa. 707.927.3623.
Pica Pica Maize
Kitchen
First Friday of every month,
salsa dance party. Oxbow
Public Market, 610 First St,
Napa.
Rainbow Room
Sun, salsa Sundays. Fri, Sat, 10pm,
DJ dancing. 806 Fourth St,
Napa. 707.252.4471.
Silo’s
Wed, 7pm, jam session.
530 Main St, Napa. 707.251.5833.
No Name Bar
OPEN EVERY DAY
12 NOON–2AM
21+
The Lindsey
Thomas Project
5, Orquestra la Moderna
Tradicion. Tues, Jazz with Noel
Jewkes and friends. Wed, Tango
with Marcello & Seth. First
Wednesday of every month,
Tangonero. Sun, salsa class.
305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito.
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Jan 3, Soul Mechanix. Jan 4,
the Devil Shakes. Jan 8, Liv
Gibson Band. Mon, acoustic
open mic. Tues, John Varn &
Tom Odetto. First Wednesday
of every month, the Weissmen.
First Sunday of every month,
Blues Jam. First Thursday of
every month, Burnsy’s Sugar
Shack. 29 Broadway, Fairfax.
415.459.9910.
Rancho Nicasio
Jan 4, the Rhythm Rangers.
Jan 5, Caribbean Bleu. Town
Square, Nicasio. 415.662.2219.
Sausalito Seahorse
Jan 3, Doc Kraft Dance Band.
Jan 4, Clem & Those Dedicated
Maniacs, Tree o’ Frogs. Jan
San Francisco’s City Guide
Young Remedy
San Francisco’s own comes correct with new album
“Twerk Chair.” Jan 2 at Brick & Mortar Music Hall.
Anthony B
Pan Afrikanist in the tradition of Marcus Garvey brings
conscious reggae alive. Jan 3 at the Independent.
The Easy Leaves
A “Western Winter Formal” with the North Bay’s finest
acoustic duo. Jan 4 at the Great American Music Hall.
Aceyalone
The most tongue-twisting member of Freestyle
Fellowship switches up styles. Jan 4 at the New Parish.
Pharoah Sanders Quartet
If Coltrane was the father of spiritual jazz, Sanders was
the son—and still inspires.
Jan 3-5 at Yoshi’s Oakland.
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Galleries
RECEPTIONS
Jan 7
O’Hanlon Center for
the Arts, “Member
Show,” featuring
sculpture, paintings,
photography and
more. 6pm.
616 Throckmorton Ave,
Mill Valley. 415.388.4331.
SONOMA COUNTY
Charles M Schulz
Museum
Through Feb 3, “Play Things:
Toys in Peanuts,” a nostalgic
journey through popular
toys in the Peanuts comic
strip. Through Mar 2, “School
Projects,” follow the Peanuts
gang as they struggle through
a typical school year with
original comic strips. Through
Apr 27, “Starry, Starry Night,”
feautring Peanuts characters
under the night sky. 2301
Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa.
Mon-Fri, noon to 5; Sat-Sun, 10
to 5. 707.579.4452.
Graton Gallery
Through Jan 4, “Sun-Drenched
Solitude,” watercolors by Sally
Baker. Through Jan 12, “New
Watercolors,” paintings by
Sally Baker. 9048 Graton Rd,
Graton. Tues-Sun, 10:30 to 6.
707.829.8912.
History Center
Through Feb 6, “Sculpture
Trail,” outdoor exhibit with
sculptures along Cloverdale
Boulevard and Geyserville
Avenue changing every nine
months. 215 N Cloverdale Blvd,
Cloverdale.
Occidental Center
for the Arts
Through Jan 5, “OCA
Paintings,” works by Adam
Wolpert, Tony King, Jack
Stuppin and Bill Wheeler.
3850 Doris Murphy Ct,
Occidental. 707.874.9392.
Redwood Cafe
Through Jan 14, “Tracing
History in Her Art,” work
by Pat Morgenthaler.
8240 Old Redwood Hwy,
Cotati. 707.795.7868.
Riverfront Art Gallery
Through Jan 5, “New Work,”
photography by Lance Kuehne.
Through Jan 5, “Water, Water
Everywhere,” photography by
Gus and Sharon Feissel.
132 Petaluma Blvd N,
Petaluma. Wed, Thurs and
Sun, 11 to 6. Fri-Sat, 11 to 8.
707.775.4ART.
Dr, Novato. Wed-Sun, 11 to 4.
415.506.0137.
O’Hanlon Center
for the Arts
Jan 7-23, “Member Show,”
featuring sculpture, paintings,
photography and more.
616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill
Valley. Tues-Sat, 10 to 2; also by
appointment. 415.388.4331.
Sebastopol Gallery
Through Jan 4, “Beneath the
Surface,” art by Bert Kaplan
and Rebeca Trevino. 150 N Main
St, Sebastopol. Open daily, 11 to
6. 707.829.7200.
Sonoma County
Museum
Through Jan 12, “Photography
in Mexico,” from the collection
of the SF MOMA. Through Jun
1, “Precious Cargo,” exhibition
of California Indian cradle
baskets. 425 Seventh St,
Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 4.
707.579.1500.
Sonoma Mountain
Village Event Center
Through Jan 20, “Cardboard
Currency,” found-art pieces
by Nick Mancillas. 1100 Valley
House Dr, Rohnert Park.
Sonoma Valley
Museum of Art
Through Mar 2, “Site & Senses,”
the Architecture of Aidlin
Darling Design. 551 Broadway,
Sonoma. Wed-Sun, 11 to 5.
707.939.SVMA.
MARIN COUNTY
Falkirk Cultural Center
Through Mar 8, “Artisans,”
emerging and internationally
known artists. 1408 Mission
Ave, San Rafael. 415.485.3438.
Gallery Route One
Through Jan 12, “MixUp,”
paintings by Will Thoms. Salon,
Jan 12, 4pm. 11101 Hwy 1, Pt
Reyes Station. Wed-Mon, 11 to
5. 415.663.1347.
Marin Community
Foundation
Through Jan 24,
“Transmissions,” work by
30 artists from around the
country. 5 Hamilton Landing,
Ste 200, Novato. Open Mon-Fri,
9 to 5.
Marin MOCA
Through Jan 12, “The Human
Experience,” work by Ning
Mercer. Novato Arts Center,
Hamilton Field, 500 Palm
NAPA COUNTY
di Rosa
Through Feb 2, “Beatnik
Meteors,” collaborative
sculptures by regional artists.
5200 Sonoma Hwy, Napa.
Wed-Sun, 10am to 6pm
707.226.5991.
Downtown Napa
Through Jan 1, 2015,
“Metamorphosis,” outdoor
sculpture exhibit with selfguided tour. Main and Third
streets, Napa.
Comedy
Big Fat Year End
Comedy Show
Featuring Will Durst, Johnny
Steele, Debi Durst, Michael
Bossier, Mari Magaloni and
Arthur Gaus. Jan 1, 8pm. $20$24. 142 Throckmorton Theatre,
142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill
Valley. 415.383.9600.
Tuesday Evening
Comedy
Mark Pitta hosts ongoing
evenings with established
comics and up-andcomers. Tues at 8. $15-$20.
142 Throckmorton Theatre,
142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill
Valley. 415.383.9600.
Events
Calistoga Art Walk
Follow the signs and view art
with strolling tour of shops
and galleries. First Wed-Thurs
of every month, 5-7pm. Free.
Downtown Calistoga, Lincoln
Ave, Calistoga. 707.225.1003.
Center Literary Cafe
Meeting of poets, writers and
artists with rotating speakers
and readings. Second Wed
of every month, 7-9pm.
Healdsburg Senior Center,
133 Matheson St, Healdsburg.
‘SADIE’ ‘The Human Experience,’ work by Ning Mercer, is up at Marin MOCA
through Jan. 12. See Galleries, this page.
Entrepreneurs’
Happy Hour
Enjoy wine and hors d’oeuvres
while socializing with local
innovators, service providers
and investors. First Tues of
every month, 5pm. Free.
Sonoma Mountain Business
Cluster, 1300 Valley House
Dr, Ste 100, Rohnert Park.
707.794.1240.
First Friday
Art Show
Oct 4, art by Abigail
Zimmerman and music by
Tom Martin. First Fri of every
month. Epicurean Connection,
122 West Napa St, Sonoma.
707.935.7960.
First Friday Art Walk
Downtown Guerneville event
includes artist receptions and
food pairings. First Fri of every
month. Free. Sonoma Nesting
Company, 16151 Main St,
Guerneville. 707.869.3434.
Game Tournaments
Various card and role-playing
games including Yu-Gi-Oh,
Dungeons and Dragons
and Magic: The Gathering.
Mon-Thurs-Sun. Outer
Planes Comics and Games,
526 Seventh St, Santa Rosa.
707.546.2000.
Kids Art Classes
Arts and crafts for kids during
the winter break from school.
See schulzmuseum.org for full
schedule. Through Jan 3. $32.
Charles M Schulz Museum,
2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa.
707.579.4452.
Low-Cost Physicals
Family physicals for adults
and children by appointment.
Ongoing. $20-$65. Sonoma
State University, 1801 E
Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.
707.664.2880.
Mill Valley Art Walk
First Tues monthly, 6 to 8,
downtown area galleries
and businesses showcase
local artists. First Tues of
every month, 6-8pm. Free.
Downtown Mill Valley,
Throckmorton Avenue, Mill
Valley. 415.721.1856.
Plant Nursery
Work Day
Volunteer at the Sonoma
Garden Park. Thurs, 9am2pm. Sonoma Ecology Center,
20 E Spain St, Sonoma.
707.996.0712.
Preschool Storytime
A lap-sit program for infants,
one day to 17 months old,
accompanied by a parent or
caregiver. Fri, 10:45am. free.
Petaluma Library,
100 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma.
707.763.9801.
Resource Clinic
Get info on housing, transit,
food stamps and Medi-Cal.
Wed, 11am-1pm. Free.
Petaluma Health Center, 1301
Southpoint Blvd, Petaluma.
707.559.7500.
Sebastopol
Art Walk
First Thurs monthly, 6 to 8,
downtown area galleries and
businesses showcase local
artists. First Thurs of every
month. Sebastopol Plaza,
McKinley St, Sebastopol.
707.874.9462.
Senior Bridge
Meet up and play a few hands,
no partner required. Fri. Napa
Senior Center, 1500 Jefferson
St, Napa. 707.224.2055.
Teen Health Clinic
Thurs, 3:30-6pm. Phoenix
Theater, 201 Washington St,
Petaluma. 707.762.3565.
Toddler Storytime
High-energy storytime for
toddlers 18 months to three
years old. Fri, 10am. Free.
Petaluma Library,
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100 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma.
707.763.9801.
Field
Trips
Afternoon Community
Service
Participate in center
restoration projects. First Wed
of every month. Richardson
Bay Audubon Center,
376 Greenwood Beach Rd,
Tiburon. 415.388.2524.
French Garden
Farm Tour
Join Dan Smith for practical
tips on growing your own
garden. First Sat of every
month. Free. French Garden
Farm, 11031 Cherry Ridge Rd,
Sebastopol. 707.824.2030.
Film
National Theatre
London Live in HD
Jan 4, “The Habit of Art”; Feb
1, “Coriolanus.” Sat, Jan 4,
1pm. $24-$30. Lark Theater,
549 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur.
415.924.5111.
Santiago Is Santiago
Documentary about Cuban
culture. Jan 7, 6pm. Free.
Bay Model Visitor Center,
2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito.
415.332.3871.
Symphony of the Soil
Documentary about listening
to the earth. Jan 5, 1pm. $8.
Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St
E, Sonoma. 707.996.9756.
Food &
Drink
Civic Center
Farmers Market
Sun at 10am, “Eat Local 101”
provides walking tour with
information, cooking advice
and ideas inspired by locally
grown foods. Year-round.
Thurs, 8am-1pm and Sun,
8am-1pm. Marin Civic Center,
3501 Civic Center Dr, San
Rafael. 800.897.3276.
French Garden
Farm Market
Enjoy produce from
restaurant’s farm, along with
freshly baked breads and
pastries from their kitchen.
Every Sun, 10 to 2. Free. French
Garden, 8050 Bodega Ave,
Sebastopol. 707.824.2030.
4, read-along program
for ages seven and up. Mon.
Belvedere-Tiburon Library,
1501 Tiburon Blvd, Tiburon.
415.789.2665.
Harvest Market
Breakfast with Enzo
Selling local and seasonal fruit,
flowers, vegetables and eggs.
Sat, 9am-1pm. Harvest Market,
19996 Seventh St E, Sonoma.
707.996.0712.
Bring clapping hands, singing
voices, dancing feet and
breakfast for weekly family
music show. Sun at 10 and
11. Mill Valley Golf Clubhouse,
267 Buena Vista, Mill Valley.
415.652.2474.
Redwood Empire
Farmers Market
Sat, 8:30am-1pm and Wed,
8:30am-noon. Veterans
Memorial Building, 1351 Maple
Ave, Santa Rosa.
Totally Truckin’
Thursdays
Four food trucks park in the
O’Reilly parking lot, provide
you with local goodness and
donate 10 percent of sales to
a monthly selected nonprofit.
Thurs. O’Reilly & Associates,
1005 Gravenstein Hwy N,
Sebastopol. 707.827.7190.
West End
Wednesdays
West End merchants offer
wine, coffee and food tastings.
Wed, 5-7pm. Free. Downtown
Napa, First Street and Town
Center, Napa.
Wine 101
First Fri at 5:30 monthly, local
food and wine experts lead
wine education and food
pairing. RSVP. First Fri of every
month, 5:30pm. $25-$35. SL
Cellars, 9380 Sonoma Hwy,
Sonoma. 707.833.5070.
For Kids
American Canyon
Library
Preschool storytime. Tues,
10:30am. Free. American
Canyon Library, 3421 Broadway
(Highway 29), American
Canyon. 707.644.1136.
Bay Area Discovery
Museum
Ongoing, “Animal Secrets.”
Hands-on art, science and
theater camps, art studio,
tot spot and lookout cove
adventure area. Wed-Thurs
at 10 and 11, music with Miss
Kitty. $5-$6. Fri at 11, aquarium
feeding. Ongoing. Admission,
$8-$10. Bay Area Discovery
Museum, Fort Baker, 557
McReynolds Rd, Sausalito.
415.339.3900.
Belvedere-Tiburon
Library
Mon at 10:30 and 11, songs and
fingerplays for kids under two.
Wed at 11, toddler storytime; at
Calistoga Library
Storytime with “Library
Grandparent,” Mon and Thurs
at 2:30. Bilingual storytime for
ages three and up, second and
fourth Wed at 10:30. Ongoing.
Free. Calistoga Library,
1108 Myrtle St, Calistoga.
707.942.4833.
Carolyn Parr
Nature Center
Learn about Napa County
habitats and birds of prey
through tours, dioramas,
games, hands-on activities
and books. Ongoing. Free.
Carolyn Parr Nature Center
Museum, Westwood Hills Park,
3107 Browns Valley Rd, Napa.
707.255.6465.
Central Library
Babytime, Tues at 10:15.
Storytime for toddlers, Tues
at 11. Preschool storytime, Fri
at 11. Tues-Fri. Free. Central
Library, Third and E streets,
Santa Rosa. 707.545.0831.
Children’s Garden
Whimsical environments for
kids’ exploration. Hours: Mon,
noon to 4; Tues-Sun, 9 to 5.
Ongoing. Free. Cornerstone
Sonoma, 23570 Arnold Dr,
Sonoma. 707.933.3010.
Chops Teen Club
Hang-out spot for Santa Rosa
teens ages 12 to 20 offers art
studio and class, open gym,
tech lounge, cafe, recording
studio and film club. Hours for
high schoolers: Mon-Thurs, 3
to 9; Fri, 3 to 11; Sat and school
holidays, noon to 11. For middle
school kids: Mon-Fri, 3 to 7;
Sat and school holidays, noon
to 7. Film club meets Tues at
4. Ongoing. Membership, $5$10 per year. Chops Teen Club,
509 Adams St, Santa Rosa.
707.284.2467.
Cloverdale Library
Tues at 10:30, preschool
storytime. Ongoing. Cloverdale
Library, 401 N Cloverdale Blvd,
Cloverdale. 707.894.5271.
Corte Madera Library
Wed at 10 and 11, preschool
storytime. Wed, 11am.
Corte Madera Library.
707 Meadowsweet Dr,
Corte Madera. 707.924.6444.
Family Story Time
CRITIC’S CHOICE
Thurs. Petaluma Historical
Museum & Library, 20 Fourth
St, Petaluma. 707.778.4398.
Messy Mucking About
Every Saturday, 9:30 to 11:30,
toddlers and their parents are
invited to a drop-in, free-form
art studio to create with paint,
ceramics, collage, construction,
found objects and feathers.
Sat. $15. Nimbus Arts, St
Helena Marketplace, Ste 1-B,
3111 St Helena Hwy, St Helena.
707.965.5278.
Petaluma Library
Tues at 10, storytime for ages
three to five; at 3, read to a
specially trained dog from
PAWS for Healing. Wed at 10,
babytime; at 7, evening pajama
storytime in Spanish and
English. Fri at 10, storytime for
toddlers. Sat at 4, parent-child
reading group for second- and
third-graders. Tues-WedFri. Petaluma Library, 100
Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma.
707.763.9801.
Readers of the Pack
A chance for new readers
to get together. Tues-Sat.
Free. Petaluma Library, 100
Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma.
707.763.9801.
Saddle Club
Children six and up are
welcome for horse- and
stable-related games and a
casual dinner. Fri, 5:30pm. $20.
Sunrise Stables, 1098 Lodi
Lane, St Helena. 707.333.1509.
St Helena Library
Free film series, story and craft
time. Tues-Wed-Fri. St Helena
Library, 1492 Library Lane, St
Helena. 707.963.5244.
Windsor Library
Preschool storytime and
storytime for babies and
toddlers. Tues-Wed. Free.
Windsor Library, 9291 Old
Redwood Hwy, Windsor.
707.838.1020.
Yountville Library
Storytime with “Library
Grandparent,” Tues, 3pm. Free.
Yountville Library, 6548 Yount
St, Yountville. 707.944.1888.
What We’re
Reading
Copperfield’s Books 2013
Top 10 bestsellers
Everyone reads and writes Top 10
lists around this time of year, but
how often does one get a peek into
what their local region is reading?
That’s what Copperﬁeld’s Books does
annually by compiling its top-selling books
of the year. This year’s list from the company’s
local stores is refreshingly free of vampires,
tawdry S&M and hunger games; indeed, it’s
the most literary-minded list in years.
And the top-selling books are:
1. ‘Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s
Near-Death Experience and Journey into
the Afterlife’ by Eben Alexander (pictured
above)
2. ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’ by
Neil Gaiman
3. ‘Wild’ by Cheryl Strayed
4. ‘And the Mountains Echoed’ by Khaled
Hosseini
5. ‘Beautiful Ruins’ by Jess Walter
6. ‘Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls’ by
David Sedaris
7. ‘Where’d You Go Bernadette’ by Maria
Semple
8. ‘Flight Behavior’ by Barbara Kingsolver
9. ‘Inferno’ by Dan Brown
10. ‘Cooked: A Natural History of
Transformation’ by Michael Pollan
—Gabe Meline
Lectures
Alzheimer’s Caregiver
Support Group
For family members giving care
to an elder with Alzhiemer’s or
dementia. First Thurs of every
month, 3pm. Rianda House
Senior Center, 1475 Main St,
St Helena. 707.967.5502.
Ask a Historian
Research Advisory Council
tackles tough questions
Cancer Support
Peer Group
Share stories, tips and
compassion with fellow cancer
patients and survivors. First
Thurs of every month. Free.
Palm Drive Hospital, 501
Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol.
CityZen
Evening of sitting meditation,
tea and dharma talk. All are
welcome. Mon, 7pm. Free.
Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino
Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.568.5381.
Death Cafe
A relaxed and safe setting
to discuss death. Jan 8, 7pm.
The Sunflower Center, 1435
N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma.
707.792.5300.
Drop-In Meditation
Classes for all levels include
guided meditation and brief
commentary. Kids welcome.
Ongoing. $10. Mahakaruna
Buddhist Center,
304 Petaluma Blvd N,
Petaluma. 707.766.7720.
Free Legal
Consultation
Half-hour consultations with
elder law attorney Janice
Sternfeld. First Thurs of every
month, 10am-noon. Jewish
Family and Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Services,
600 Fifth Ave, San Rafael.
Good Puppy
Academics
Meditation Group
for Mothers
Mindful meditation and sharing
experiences for benefit of
mothers and their children.
Wed, 8:30am. $10. Shambhala
Meditation Center, 255 West
Napa St, Ste G, Sonoma.
Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hanlon Roundtable
Continuing parade of
experienced artists share
thoughts on creative process.
All artists welcome. First Tues
each month, 4 to 6. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hanlon
Center for the Arts, 616
Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.
415.388.4331.
Mondays, 9:30am, Storytelling
with Phaedra. 189 H St,
Petaluma 707.778.6060.
Relax with morning meditation.
First Sun of every month,
10:30am. Donation.
Pleasures of the Heart
First Monday, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
salon. Second Monday, coed
discussion group. First Mon of
every month, 7pm. Pleasures of
the Heart, 1310 Fourth St, San
Rafael. 415.482.9899.
Public Discussion
Institute for the Fulfillment of
Human Society invites all for
public chat on current issues.
First Tues of every month, 7pm.
$5. Subud Hall, 234 Hutchins
Ave, Sebastopol. 707.793.2188.
Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution
in China
Science Buzz Cafe
Weekly medicinal gardening
clinic with master cultivators
explores changing and seasonal
topics. Wed. Free. Peace in
Medicine, 6771 Sebastopol
Ave, Hwy 12, Sebastopol.
707.823.4206.
How to De-bitter Olives
Don Landis describes his
process. Jan 5, 11am. Free.
Cline Cellars, 24737 Arnold Dr,
Sonoma. 707.940.4025.
Readings
Aqus Cafe
Santa Rosa Stamp Club
Grow Clinic
Rudolph Steinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teachings
on social transformation with
Abraham Entin. Thurs, 7pm.
Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth
St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.3009.
Jasmine Gold, certified Four
Agreements facilitator, shares
tools to help parents and
teens work together to resolve
conflict. First Sat each month
at 2. First Sat of every month.
$50-$57. Cotati Community
Center, 216 E School St, Cotati.
Peace in Process
Open to all stamp collectors
and anyone interested in
collecting stamps. First Tues of
every month. Free. The Lodge at
Paulin Creek, 2375 Range Ave,
Santa Rosa.
Jan 7, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Getting Inside the Minds
of Animalsâ&#x20AC;? with Jim Sullivan,
tracker; Feb 4, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Communicating
with Horses Straight From the
Heartâ&#x20AC;? with Charlie Raposa.
Tues, Jan 7, 7pm. $5. Aqus
Cafe, 189 H St, Petaluma.
707.778.6060.
SELFSudan
Nyuol Lueth Tong of Duke
University speaks about
his anthology of Sudanese
fiction and screens a short
documentary about the country.
Jan 3, 7pm. $10. Arlene Francis
Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa.
707.528.3009.
Speaker Series
Lectures first Wed of every
25
Spirit & Revolution
Parent/Teen Harmony
Enhance the human-canine
partnership with Margie
Cantwell. Jan 3, 7:30pm.
Donation. Songbird Community
Healing Center, 8297 Old
Redwood Hwy, Cotati.
707.795.2398.
Dongping Han tells his life story.
Jan 8, 7pm. Free. Peace and
Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol
Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.575.8902.
month at 7:30 in Creekside
Room. First Wed of every
month. Free. Mill Valley
Library, 375 Throckmorton
Ave, Mill Valley. www.
millvalleyhistoricalsociety.org.
Barking Dog Roasters
First Sat, 5:30 to 7, First Sat
monthly at 5:30, UniverSoul
poetry and music open mic,
hosted by Juanita J Martin.
707.435.1807. 18133 Sonoma
Hwy, Sonoma.
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Jan 5, 1pm, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Entering the
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of Loveâ&#x20AC;? with Janine Canan.
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Astrology
BY ROB BREZSNY
For the week of January 1
ARIES (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19) Deep bronzes and
smoky cinnamons and dark chocolates will be your
lucky colors in 2014. Mellow mahoganies and resonant
russets will work well for you, too. They will all be part
of lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conspiracy to get you to slow down, deepen
your perspective and slip into the sweetest groove ever.
In this spirit, I urge you to nestle and cuddle and caress
more than usual in the coming months. If you arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
totally clear on where home is, either in the external
world or inside your heart, devote yourself to ďŹ nding it.
Hone your emotional intelligence. Explore your roots.
On a regular basis, remember your reasons for loving
life. Stay in close touch with the sources that feed your
wild soul.
TAURUS (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20) For years, French
painter Ă&#x2030;douard Manet and French poet StĂŠphane
MallarmĂŠ hung out with each other every day. MallarmĂŠ
referred to their relationship as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the most complete
friendship.â&#x20AC;? They inďŹ&#x201A;uenced each other to become
better artists and human beings. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m guessing that in
the coming months, Taurus, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll thrive on that kind
of stimulating companionship. Having such regular
contact with a likeminded ally might even be an
important factor in ripening your intelligence. At the
very least, I predict that soulful friendship will be a
crucial theme in 2014. You will attract blessings and
generate luck for yourself by deepening your ability to
cultivate synergistic bonds.
GEMINI (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20) St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basilica is
a very old church in Vatican City. It contains a life-size
bronze statue of St. Peter that is at least 700 years
old. Over the centuries, countless visitors have paid
their respects by kissing and touching the feet of the
idol. The metal composing the right foot has been
so thoroughly worn down by these gestures that the
individual toes have disappeared, leaving a smooth
surface. You will have a similar kind of power in 2014,
Gemini. Little by little, with your steady affection and
relentless devotion, you can transform whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rigid
and hard.
CANCER (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22)
Big rivers donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t travel
in straight lines. Their paths are curvy and complicated,
with periodic turns and bends. In some places they ďŹ&#x201A;ow
faster and in others theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re slower. Their depth and
width may vary along the way, too. Your own destiny
is like one of those big rivers, Cancerian. In some
years, it meanders for long stretches, slowing down
as it wanders along a crooked course. It may even get
shallower and narrower for a while. But I expect that in
2014, you will be moving more rapidly than usual. You
will be traveling a more direct route, and you will be
both wide and deep.
LEO (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;August 22) â&#x20AC;&#x153;In games, there are
rules,â&#x20AC;? writes science ďŹ ction author Kim Stanley
Robinson, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but in life, the rules keep changing.â&#x20AC;? This
is always true, of course, but I think it will be an
especially poignant truth for you between now and
your next birthday. During the coming months, you
may sometimes feel as if every last law and formula
and corollary is mutating. In some cases, the new rules
coming into play will be so different from the old rules
youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been used to, they may at ďŹ rst be hard to ďŹ gure
out. But now hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the happy ending: It may take a
while, but you will eventually see that these new rules
have an unexpected logic and beauty that will serve
your future well.
VIRGO (August 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;September 22) I predict that
you will commit no major acts of self-sabotage in 2014.
Congrats! I also foresee that you will be exceptionally
careful not to hurt or damage yourself. Hooray! More
good news: You wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be as critical of yourself as you
have sometimes been in the past. The judgmental
little voice in the back of your head wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be nearly as
active. Yay! Even your negative emotions will diminish
in frequency and intensity. Hallelujah! Whoopee!
Abracadabra!
LIBRA (September 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;October 22) The citizens
of Iceland love literature, but many are not content to
simply read. One out of every 10 Icelanders writes and
publishes a book at sometime in his or her life. I know
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unrealistic, but I would love to see at least one in
10 of all my Libra readers do the same in 2014. I think
youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready to make a big statementâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to express
yourself in a more complete and dramatic way than
ever before. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not ready to write a book, I hope
you will attempt an equivalent accomplishment.
SCORPIO (October 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;November 21)
Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m
hoping you will ďŹ nd a new teacher or two in 2014,
maybe even a mentor. Not a guru who tells you what
to do. Not an exploitative â&#x20AC;&#x153;expertâ&#x20AC;? who claims to know
whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right for you or a charismatic narcissist who
collects adoration. What I wish for you, Scorpio, is
that you will connect with wise and humble sources
of inspiration . . . with life-long learners who listen
well and stimulate you to ask good questions . . . with
curious guides who open your eyes to resources you
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize you need. In the coming months, you are
primed to launch a quest that will keep you busy and
excited for years; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to see you get excellent help
in framing that quest.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;December 21)
In 2014, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible you will be given a cabbage farm
or a petting zoo or some bequest thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not exactly in
close alignment with your lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purpose. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more
likely that the legacies and dispensations you receive
will be quite useful. The general trend is that allies will
make available to you a steady ďŹ&#x201A;ow of useful things.
Your ability to attract what you need will be high. In the
coming months, I may even have good reason to name
you an honorary Scorpio. You might match those Great
Manipulatorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; proďŹ ciency at extracting the essence of
what you want from every situation.
CAPRICORN (December 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;January 19)
Would you be interested in a motto that will help set
the tone for you in 2014? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a suggestion thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
in alignment with the astrological omens. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s from
a poem by Margaret Atwood. Try saying this and see
if it works for you: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last year I abstained / this year
I devour / without guilt / which is also an art.â&#x20AC;? If you
choose to make this afďŹ rmation your own, be sure you
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget about the fact that devouring without guilt
is an artâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a skill that requires craft and sensitivity.
You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to get blindly instinctual and greedy in
2014; you shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t compulsively overcompensate for
2013â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deprivations. Be cagey and discerning as you
satisfy your voracious hunger.
AQUARIUS (January 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;February 18) The
coming months will be a good time to meditate on the
concepts of happy accidents and benevolent trouble.
Go ahead and throw constructive mischief into the
mix, too, and maybe even a dose of graceful chaos. Are
you game for playing around with so much paradox?
Are you willing to entertain the possibility that fate
has generous plans for you that are too unexpected
to anticipate? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only one requirement that you
have to meet in order to receive your odd gifts in the
spirit in which theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be offered: Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to be openminded, eager to learn and ďŹ&#x201A;exible.
PISCES (February 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20)
I think we
humans need some new emotions. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true that old
standards like sadness, anger, jealousy and fear are as
popular as ever. But I would personally love to be able
to choose from a greater variety, especially if at least
51 percent of the new crop of emotions were positive
or inspiring. Now it so happens that in 2014 you
Pisceans will be primed to be pioneers. Your emotional
intelligence should be operating at peak levels. Your
imagination will be even more fertile than usual. So
how about it? Are you ready to generate revolutionary
innovations in the art of feeling unique and interesting
feelings? To get started, consider these: (1) amused
reverence; (2) poignant excitement; (3) tricky sincerity;
(4) boisterous empathy.
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